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Augustus Barry

Medal of Honor recipient

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ4821382 ↗
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Augustus Barry (c. 1840 – August 3, 1871) was an American soldier who received the Medal of Honor for valor during the American Civil War.

Biography

Barry served in the American Civil War in the 16th U.S. Infantry for the Union Army. He received the Medal of Honor on February 28, 1870, for his actions in Tennessee and Georgia during the war.

Medal of Honor citation

Citation:

Gallantry in various actions during the rebellion.

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This entry incorporates text from “Augustus Barry” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.